July 2010

﻿﻿﻿Over last few years numerous data-mining competitions were organized. The famous Netflix challenge, KDD Cups, and many others attract top-level specialists to compete in building the best models. In our recently published paper titled "Medical Data Mining: Insights from Winning …

In the lead-up to the world cup, Kaggle invited statisticians and data miners to take on the big investment banks in predicting the outcome of the World Cup. Now that the final has been decided and the vuvuzelas have finally …

Kaggle is currently hosting a bioinformatics contest, which requires participants to pick markers in a series of HIV genetic sequences that correlate with a change in viral load (a measure of the severity of infection). Within a week and a …

I'm a post-doctoral research fellow studying deep machine learning methods with Professor Yoshua Bengio at the Universitéde Montréal. I study both natural language processing and machine learning, with a focus on large scale data sets. I'm a Kaggle member. From …